On 31/07/2013 20:36, DaveB wrote:
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The server is using 5 'net based servers at this time (my original GPS
RX died) and is only just stable enough for what I'm doing.  Sometimes
due to asymetric ping times, it "wanders a bit" for an hour or three.
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Oh...  Though the time server is FreeBSD based, other boxes in my empire
are a mixture of Windows and Linux, various versions types and
requirements.

Cheers All.

Dave. (G0WBX/G8KBV)

Dave,

A small GPS with PPS I can recommend to you is this one:

  http://www.adafruit.com/products/746

At least here, on the top floor of a two-storey house in Scotland, it gets enough signal to lock consistently. Not too expensive, and available from a UK stockist.


http://proto-pic.co.uk/ultimate-gps-breakout-66-channel-w-10-hz-updates-mtk3339-chipset/

A few hundred microseconds should be enough for your pulse, although GPSs tend to use either 100 ms or 200 ms by default. Easier to see on a non-storage 'scope as well! I'm pondering on making a driver and having a terminated line running around the shack here (at pseudo RS-232 levels) for feeding PPS into all my PCs which have COM ports to get the best time synchronisation. AT the moment, those PCs which aren't stratum-1 have the poll interval set to 32 seconds to the local stratum-1 servers.

I'm sure you know about the information on my site for FreeBSD, Windows and Linux, but others may not:

 http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/index.html
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73,
David GM8ARV
Web: http://www.satsignal.eu

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